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Sajid Javid Health Secretary
and Dr Susan Hopkins


He is talking about Omicron.

Wednesday 19/1/21

359 have Died
108,069 have caught Covid-19

Patients in hospital
Latest available
18,979

Patients in
ventilation beds
Latest available
703



152,872 Total UK Covid-19 Deaths


https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

BBC News Hugh Pym asks about the PM's position

Thats got nothing to do with this.

I was sick as well recently. But thankfully on the mend now.

Lovely !


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Ness, the only uk resident to bag all Covid variants

:joker:

Coronavirus Outbreak : Live 5PM Health Secretary Downing St.
 

No wonder Boris has seemed rather distracted of late ... I can’t imagine how you’d feel if your 5 week old baby was very poorly with Covid ( a virus we still know so little about ) .

I know I’m probably a lone voice in giving Boris the benefit of the doubt over the 25 minutes he spent in a garden get-together but seriously ... I would have taken myself away from politics for a while for this reason alone - yet he chose to fight through all this nonsense .

Hopefully Starmer will have the decency to ask how she’s progressing at the next PMs QT.
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Why would he ask such a personal question of the PM in a televised area? What if Boris doesn't want to share? Do you think the only time they interact is in Parliament as I'm sure its not.

All Starmer’s comments directed at Boris are personal ..


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About Boris....not his children. :shrug:

Still personal comments — was my point


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How is Matthew Annie?

He's good thanks for asking. He was "off" for around 36 hours then back to normal other than q bit sniffly. Homeschooling and complaining he's bored :laugh:

I can test him again tomorrow and saturday and release him if negative.

:fc:

I don’t often agree with Khan but I think wearing a face covering on the tube should be mandatory for ever

https://nltimes.nl/2022/01/20/dutch-...-director-says

Netherlands: The assumptions previously made by the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) about the Omicron variant of the coronavirus were "too pessimistic," according to top infectious disease specialist Jaap van Dissel. This applies to the risk of hospitalization, for example. Two weeks ago, the institute estimated in model calculations that this was 40 percent lower than with the Delta variant, but that also seems too negative, Van Dissel acknowledged in a briefing to parliament.

The Omicron variant has supplanted the Delta variant, according to the RIVM. Omicron causes about 95 percent of new infections, said Van Dissel. "The picture is tilting," Van Dissel noted. He reiterated that Omicron is less likely to lead to hospitalization than Delta. Fewer people become so ill that they need intensive care, but to what extent, Van Dissel cannot say completely. "The percentages are continuously adjusted."

Based on the figures from countries ahead of the Netherlands regarding Omicron infections, Van Dissel can say that the variant still leads to considerable pressure on healthcare. Compared to other European countries, taking the number of inhabitants into account, there are a lot fewer coronavirus patients hospitalized in the Netherlands, NOS reports. In Denmark and Belgium, hospitalizations are twice as high proportionally and five times as high in the United Kingdom, Spain, and France.

Translated to the Dutch situation, those numbers would put "very significant" pressure on the healthcare system, Van Dissel said, according to NOS. "You wouldn't want those numbers in the Netherlands."

Van Dissel added that some of the coronavirus patients currently in Dutch hospitals have the Delta variant. They were infected earlier when the Delta variant was still dominant.

The Omicron variant is currently mainly circulating among younger people. The infection rates are much lower among people over 60, most of whom have had their booster shots. At the same time, the latest RIVM figures make clear that the booster shot also "does not offer 100 percent protection," Van Dissel said

Well now
 

In England and Wales in 2020/2021: 17,000 deaths directly of covid with no co morbidities according to ONS!

Average age of death 2021 (UK): 82.5 years

Oficial figures that we all got given were 8 times higher

:skull:

Yes as it is a Tube,
lack of air in it.

Netherlands todays numbers

39.978 new cases

1.124 total hospitalisations

290 total on ICU's/ventilators, 16 new patients on ICU's

10 new deaths

133 new patients on the nursing wards

Thursday 20/1/22

330 have Died of Covid.
107,364 have caught Covid-19

Patients in hospital
Latest available
18,494


Patients in
ventilation beds
Latest available
675


153,302 Total UK Deaths Covid-19


https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

well we now know that these stats are misleading

Could just be flu, I'm not sure.